About Me

Jean Cockburn retired from her professional career as an academic librarian in 2008 to become a textile artist living on Denman Island, British Columbia. She draws, quilts, embroiders, knits and crochets, makes wearable art, weaves baskets, dyes fabric, and paints watercolours. Her work has been exhibited locally in juried and group shows on Denman Island, in Courtenay, Comox, and Duncan on Vancouver Island, in West Vancouver, and across Canada with the Surface Design Association.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Garden Tapestry #2 finished!

Still very tired and weak with my cold. The painting that I did yesterday for week #1 of Jane LaFazio's course, of an iris, was not up to my usual standard, as I just could not concentrate. Today I was able to concentrate better, and I did the drawing and painting first thing in the morning. I chose a buttercup and I think that it turned out better than the iris.

Then in the afternoon I finished binding Garden Tapestry #2, and added some final beading. The hand quilting was really hard work, and I am mulling over whether I have it in me to finish a third long wallhanging in this fashion.

October 22 - November 10, 2015. Portals Gallery in Duncan, British Columbia. Garden Tapestry Fibre Arts show. A show of the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association. My piece is a Garden Fantasy triptych featuring embroidery and beading. The three pieces are titled Leaves, Blossoms and Bees, and Butterflies. (Note that 2 of my 3 pieces sold at this show, the third piece will be on display March 5 -19, 2016, at the South Shore Gallery in Sooke, B.C.)

February 2015. QuiltCon, Modern Quilt Guid of America conference in Austin Texas. My quilt titled Syncopation was juried into the quilt show, where it was displayed in the Handwork category.

December 2014 through May 2015. Comox Valley Airport and the Comox Valley Arts Council exhibit. My quilted piece is titled Sailboat at Anchor in Baynes Sound.

August 2013. Art Show at the Summer Art Gallery at the Denman Island Arts Centre, called Land, Sand, Sea and Sky: Textural Responses to Nature. This was a joint show with fellow fibre artist, Pelka Wiltshire.

August 2013. Denman Island Sustainability Group Art Show at the Summer Art Gallery at the Denman Island Arts Centre.